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Robo Prize a clamed PRIZE VALUE of Millions of Dollars. The idea of offering prize-money to help advance technology is not new. Throughout history, prize money has motivated people to achieve great things. Lindbergh would not have been the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic if it wasn't for the prize money. In fact, that was said to be one of his main motivating factor!
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Now knows how to navigate around people in work areas, a seemingly simple, yet complex task. It can also share and coordinate tasks with other Asimos and dock itself at the recharge station as needed. These abilities enable the Asimo to be more autonomous in a workplace and bring it one step closer to replacing actual humans. Honda developed an intelligence technology that enhances smooth movement by enabling ASIMO to choose between stepping back and yielding the right-of-way or continuing to walk based on the predicted movement of oncoming people. Honda also developed a new intelligence technology related to ASIMO's ability to perform tasks such as carrying a tray and pushing a cart. Furthermore, a new comprehensive system was developed so that multiple ASIMOs can share tasks by adjusting to the situation and work together in coordination to provide uninterrupted service. For example, if one ASIMO is idled while recharging, other ASIMO robots will step in and perform assigned tasks.ASIMO identifies oncoming people through its eye camera, calculates traveling direction and speed, predicts forthcoming movements of oncoming people, and chooses the most appropriate path so that it will not block the movement of others. When there is not enough space, ASIMO will step back and yield the right-of-way. (newlaunches) |
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iRobot Roombas® feature dramatically improved vacuum pickup, brush design, debris and particle filtering, advanced cleaning coverage and navigation plus innovative new scheduling capabilities. Improved cleaning performance Improved navigation Voice demonstration Lower maintenance |
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iRobot Looj® Blasts out debris, clogs and sludge and brushes your gutters clean. Reduces repeated ladder repositioning and over-reaching from dangerous heights. Includes Holster for hands-free transport and convenient storage. Includes an extra battery pack and an additional 3-stage auger |
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iRobot Verro® Pool Cleaning Robot. Cleans in-ground pools, floor to waterline, in 90 minutes. Aqua Smart Cleaning System. PVA Brushes "power scrub" pool surfaces. Cleans and circulates 70+ gallons of water per minute. 2-year warranty. Removes large and small debris down to 2 microns. Reduces run time of your pool's filtration system. No installation required. |
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iRobot Dirt Dog® Shop Sweeping Robot
Sweeps
patios, decks, workshops, garages, basements and other industrial
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iRobot Scooba® Floor Washing Robot. Preps, washes, scrubs and squeegees sealed hardwood, tile and linoleum floors. Knows where to clean and avoids rugs, carpets and cliffs. Cleans beneath cabinet edges, tables, chairs and other hard-to-reach places. Covers 850 sq. feet (3-4 average size rooms) per battery charge. |
Google X-Prize by building lunar missions complete with robotic rovers capable of roaming the surface of the moon for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and other data back to Earth, according to a statement from the X Prize Foundation. Google Lunar X Prize
First Objective For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a unique varsity sport of the mind designed to help high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be.
Issac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which almost all positronic robots appearing in his fiction must obey. Introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although foreshadowed in a few earlier stories, the Laws state the following:-
A Robot Bill of Rights. (Ethical code for robots in works).
Ethics for the Robot Age - Should bots carry weapons? Should they win patents? Questions we must answer as automation advances. View by Jordan Pollack. Wired Magazine (January 2005; Issue 13.01). "My definition of a robot is any device controlled by software that can work 24/7 and put people out of work. The machines are not intelligent. ... In case you missed them, today's most popular robots are ATMs and computer printers. While our hopes for and fears of robots may be overblown, there is plenty to worry about as automation progresses. The future will have many more robots, and they'll most certainly be much more advanced. This raises important ethical questions that we must begin to confront. 1. Should robots be humanoid? ... 2. Should humans become robots? ... 4. Should robots eat? ... 6. Should robots carry weapons? ..."
A new set of laws has been proposed to govern operations by killer robots. (PDF format), The ideas were floated by John S Canning, an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Centre, Dahlgren Division an American weapons-research and test establishment. Mr Canning's Concept of Operations for Armed Autonomous Systems .
Over the past years the Bionic Learning
Network, a consortium of universities, institutes and development
companies run by German automation giant Festo, has been turning out
impressive robotic artifacts. Festo thinks of robots like the AquaPenguin, AquaRay and AquaJelly pictured
above as technology demonstrators that help identify bionic principles.
These principles in turn may be applicable in their next generation of
automation products. In the latest episode of the Robots podcast, Markus Fischer,
head of the Bionic Learning Network project and head of Festo's
Corporate Design explains how Festo transfers technologies from
biomimetic research to actual products. In the second part of this
episode Victor Zykov, very well known for his work on Resilient Introspective
Machines with Hod
Lipson, talks more about the role of bio-inspiration as well as his
favorite topic, modular robots. Zykov explains his work on his
bio-inspired Molecubes (see some previous posts), and
tells us how Festo may use modular robots to construct the adaptable
factories of the future. Tune
in!
EU Creates Self-Tuning Compiler Robots use all kinds of embedded processors. New processors are being
created all the time. Writing software for all those processors requires
a compiler and the most commonly used compiler is GNU GCC, originally created by Richard
Stallman that made the Free Software and
Open Source
movements possible. The trouble is, a lot of work is
involved in optimizing a complex compiler like GCC for every new
processor that turns up. What if we could use AI and machine learning
techniques to do all that work? This idea was explored by a
group of EU research organizations. The result is MILEPOST GCC
4.4.0, the first machine learning enabled, self-tuning compiler that
can adapt to any architecture using an iterative feedback-directed
process. From the IBM
press release:
The diagram above compares a block diagram of the current GCC
with MILEPOST GCC. At present MILEPOST GCC is a research compiler only
but because it's Free Software, you can download
MILEPOST GCC, use it, study it,
and even modify the code if you wish. To make modification easier, the
researchers have also created a plugin API called the Interactive
Compilation Interface (ICI). For more on how the machine learning
process works,
visit the MILEPOST website. You
can learn a lot about what's going on by reading the MILEPOST FAQ. There is
also a mailing
list for those who'd like to join the development project and help
work on this new generation of intelligent self-tuning compilation
tools.
Earlier this year NOAA warned
that increased global warming
was combining with natural variability in the
Arctic and could result in an ice-free Arctic in as little as 30 years,
rather than the end of the century as predict by earlier models. This
has created a sense of urgency among organizations studying the changes.
NOAA
and NASA have combined forces with Northrop Grumman to create a
specially modified Global Hawk UAV that will make 6 long duration
missions over the Arctic and the Pacific ocean to collect data in
troposphere and lower stratosphere. The Global Hawk is an autonomous
robot that can stay aloft for 31 hours at altitudes up to 65,000 feet.
NASA is also using a UAVSAR
(Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar) to create highly
detailed Arctic ice maps:
Meanwhile, Seaglider
robots have been deployed off Greenland to make more accurate
measurements of Arctic sea currents. Scientist believe the Arctic runoff
is already altering the density of sea water in the Labrador Sea,
driving critical ocean circulation that affects the global climate. We
mentioned last month that another seaglider project
has resulted in a new understanding of ocean circulation that should
significantly improve the accuracy of climate models. Canada
is also deploying two AUVs to scan the seabed to further their
claims in the coming UN Convention that will determine which nations get
sovereign rights to the new ocean areas forming as the Arctic melts.
Senario: Pleo is Alive and Well We reported in April that the creator of the Pleo robot dinosaur, Ugobe, Inc., filed chapter 7
bankruptcy, leaving the future of the Pleo in doubt. Then we got
some good news in June when Jetta, the Chinese company who manufactured
the Pleo robots for Ugobe, announced they had bought the rights to the
robot and would continue building them. This left only the question of
immediate availability. Would Pleos continue to be sold in the US? Megan
Lawler writes:
Megan goes on to say that you can buy a Pleo today at
Botabingbotaboom.com [$299],
Target.com
[$349], BestBuy.com [not in online
catalog], and, of course Amazon.com
[$157]. The Amazon price looks pretty good but their prices fluctuate
frequently so your mileage may vary.
For those who haven't kept up with the NASA
Mars rovers, Spirit and
Opportunity, here's the situation. Both rovers are still going but dust
accumulations on the solar panels have limited their power. To make
matters worse, Spirit
became stuck on the side of a sand dune. NASA engineers are making
elaborate efforts to
free the rover, including creating an exact simulation of the Martial
soil. In the meantime, a freak wind gust has purged most of the dust
from the robot's solar panels, giving it more power than it's had in
years. With all that extra power and no where to go, scientists decided
to try some astronomical observations. The first result is shown above, a
view of the night sky from sol 1943 (June 22 Earth time). Most of what
you see are not stars, just hot pixels. The bright streak on the left is
Canopus. To eliminate the noise and make the stars stand out, engineers
plan to combine multiple exposures on future attempts. They also hope to
capture images of Earth and Venus in the twilight sky. For more see the
detailed
story by Nancy Atkinson in Universe Today. I've included a few other
recent photos from Spirit after the break. For even more images visit the Spirit raw
image repository for over 100,000 photos from the Mars rover.
Robots Sing Happy Birthday to UK Science Museum
Peer Lawther writes, "you kindly wrote about the BERTI robot (Another
Breakthrough in Rock, Paper, Scissors) a few months ago; many thanks
for doing this. We have now uploaded two follow up robotics videos, this
time based on the work of Professor Eduardo Miranda at the Interdisplinary Centre for
Computer Music Research at Plymouth (UK) university and the Science Museum". The
first video, seen above, shows robots singing "Happy Birthday" to the
Science Museum. The museum is 100 years old. After the break is the
second video, and possible the more interesting one. It's shows the
three autonomous, intelligent robots learning to sing through a process
in which they evolve
their own unique musical languages.
I hope it's not too soon for another roundup because our
mailbox is overflowing. Props to Geekdad at Wired for
including us in his list of 52 Robot
Geeks on Twitter. Wired also posted an interesting article
suggesting birds may
be able to see magnetic fields thanks to some quantum mechanics
going on in their eyes. Based on Roger
Ebert's review, the new Transformers movie is for the birds too. He
describes the movie as "a horrible experience of unbearable length". Add
that to the new Terminator on the robot movies that
suck list. On the other hand, at least one fan likes Transformers enough to
build a full-size
Bumble Bee in his front yard. But that pales in comparison to the full-size
59 foot Gundam that now stands over Tokyo. John Palmisano sent us
video of smaller combat robots
fighting it out at RoboGames 2009. More peaceful robots were the
subject of several
recent 'The Future and You' podcasts featuring our friend Tom Atwood
of Robot Magazine. Finally, Stephen
Hsu discusses Bruce Charlton's recent essay on the question, "Why are modern scientists so
dull?" (PDF format). Know any other robot news, gossip, or amazing
facts we should report? Send 'em our way please. And don't
forget to follow us on
twitter.
Cute Japanese Robot Makes Coffee
A little robot named Hina (meaning
young chick) has become very popular through the Japanese video sharing
community, Nico Nico Douga. The
video shows a 36 centimeter tall robot modeled after a young girl,
grinding beans and pouring ingredients to make coffee. Created by mujaki, she
was built largely out of modified parts from KHR-2HV, a
robot kit made by KONDO.
I think this review marks some kind of record for how extensively
we've tested a hardware product. Normally, when we receive a piece of
hardware here at robots.net, we give a brief evaluation and write a
basic review of it. So
when Pololu sent a 3pi robot in late
2008, I expected to write and post
a quick review. As it has turned out, here it is June of 2009 and the
3pi has been more thoroughly field tested than any other robot we've
worked with. We've had way too much fun with this little robot and by the
time you finish reading the review, you'll probably want to buy one or
two for yourself. Read on for all the details as well as loads of
photos.
Forbes AI Report: Gigadeath to the Artilects! Forbes has posted a huge, mixed bag of interesting articles on AI and
robots. They're calling it their AI
Report. David Gelernter contributes the article, "What
Happened to Theoretical AI". There are also articles from AGI folks,
like
Ben Goertzel's "AI
And What To Do About It" which offers career advice for humans
planning to live through the singularity. Even
more loaded with
singularity buzzwords is The
Coming Artilect War by Hugo de Garis where
you can read about artilect gods, Cosmists, Terrans, and Cyborgists
duking it out in a post singularity world:
Maybe it's me but I keep expecting Xenu to get involved in all that
gigadeath.
Obviously, Hugo is as pessimistic about the singularity as Ray Kurzweil
is optimistic. If reading singularity proselytes is more than you
can take, there are plenty of other articles more grounded in science
and philosophy such as The
Ethical
War Machine by Patrick Lin which addresses the legal and technical
challenges of miltary robots; and Who
Needs Humanoids by Helen Greiner who points out that when the first
Roomba owners provided feedback, they weren't saying "I wish my Roomba
was more human-like", they were saying "I wish my Roomba did a better
job of cleaning the floor". Judea Pearl offers an article called "Giving
Computers Free Will" but it turns out he believes free will is an
illusion (as always, I recommend the more coherent explanation of free
will offered by Daniel Dennett in Freedom
Evolves).
The debate over human
vs robot space exploration continues. The last time this issue
made news was in 2006 with the death of long time opponent
of human space exploration, James Van Allen. Opponents argue that the
only purpose of space exploration is to return data to Earth, something
they argue can be done by robots more cost effectively than by humans.
No one seriously argues that robots should not explore space and there
is a long history of successful robotic space
exploration. Proponents of human exploration simply disagree that
robots alone are sufficient. The latest dust up occurred recently with
Stephen Hawking's
call for Human colonies on the Moon and Mars. The point Hawking
makes is that robotic exploration doesn't expand the human race beyond
the planet Earth:
Hawking points out that if we devote only one quarter of one percent
of the world's GDP toward space exploration and colonization, it would
give us a budget 20 times that currently allocated to the International
Space Station. One problem may be NASA itself. Scientists
within the agency itself have argued that NASA's current human space
flight program is an expensive, misguided boondoggle. Now the Obama
administration has intervened and may force them to drop Ares to
work on a more sensible alternative to get humans back into space.
Meanwhile, space robots soldier on. The Japanese Kaguya probe
recorded it's final
approach to a Lunar impact and the NASA
LRO, pictured above, was successfully launched days ago and started
it journey towards the Moon. Worried about super smart killer robots taking over the world? No need,
says Francis
X Govers III; claims that machines will surpass human brain
power any time soon are "complete and utter BS". On the
other hand, the Swirling
Brain sent a link to the latest
killer robot designs the Air Force is working on for urban warfare,
such as kamikaze insect UAVs that will land
on an enemy sniper's neck and explode. And that brings us to the
latest news
from DIY Drones; version 2.2 of
ArduPilot, the open source AUV software is out. If you don't want
your flying robot to crash, you'll also want to get all those resister
values
right and the ucHobby blog offers help in the form of
a handy new online resister
color code chart. Further afield, robots.net user montesns sent a link to
Honda's new 3D Asimo
website. And in the UK, the Shadow Robot Company is involved in two
new research programs: one called HANDLE and another called PV-S
aimed at robots for cleaning solar panels. Dr. Seth Quartey let us
know about his website
showcasing ads from Universities all over the world offering
robotics academic and
research programs. In news from beyond the Earth, robots are shaping
up to be key players in the latest shuttle mission to the ISS, which
also includes installation of the COLBERT
hardware for the humans. Know any other robot news, gossip, or amazing
facts we should report? Send 'em our way please. And don't
forget to follow us on
twitter.
Science fiction movie and television icon Robby the
Robot from the 1956 movie The Forbidden
Planet has entered many hearts (and Top 10 lists). The latest
episode of the Robots podcast
interviews Fred "Robotman"
Barton, who restored the original Robby, and whose company is the
exclusive manufacturer and licensee for Robby and many other well known
movie robots. Barton specializes on life-size computerized replicas,
including those of the original Star Wars Trilogy droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, Robot Model B9 from
Lost in Space, Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still, Maria from Metropolis, the Target Earth
robot, or the T2-Endoskeleton.
In the interview he describes his work with Robby and other robot
collectibles and shares his experience with robots and Hollywood - tune
in, or participate in the contest
to win a DVD or bluray of your favorite movie robot.
Robots.Video: A Vintage Robo Alpha Performance
This impressive display of chaotic robotic noise is from a 1999 Detroit
performance of experimental noise artist Government Alpha
(performing as alter-ego ROBO-ALPHA). Government Alpha aptly describes
itself as Yasutoshi Yoshida's "Experimental Harsh Noise" project on their
myspace page. If you'd
like to hear more harsh noise, check out Government
Alpha's CDs or you might be interested in the "Extreme
Music From Japan" compilation CD (1995) from Susan Lawly (described
as "a very good representation of the finest noise Japan has to
offer"). The YouTube video has
collected a small but extreme range of comments from, "I want to be
a robot when I grow up" to "the most ridiculous waste of human energy
I've ever witnessed". Depending on your personal proclivities, you may
want to either increase your volume to maximum or mute it altogether
before clicking the play button. You have been warned. Props to our
friends at Pink
Tentacle for bringing this noise to our attention.
Can robots or other forms of artificial life teach us anything about
life and death? This question is pondered by researcher Carlos Gershenson in his
short but interesting essay, "What Does Artificial
Life Tell Us About Death?" (PDF format). Death occurs when an
organism loses the particular organization that allows the process we
call life to occur. Take a living organism, put it in a blender, and a
few minutes later you will have exactly the same molecules but with a
different organization. The living organism now exists only as a
description to third person observers. Gershenson notes:
Some artificial life, such as digital organisms, can be
backed up or saved and then recreated with the same organization. The
same may be true for wet alife such as protocells. "If we can create
again a living system with the same organization", Gershenson asks, "did
it die in the first place?" He goes on to provide speculation on
possible definitions of death that correspond to specific views of life.
Robotologists will note that he fails to mention the possibility of robot
hell or silicon heaven.
Robots: From Animals to Automation
Initial IBM experiments conducted on IBM System p servers
achieved an average 18 percent performance improvement on
embedded-application benchmarks...it normally takes application
developers many months to get their software running at an acceptable
level of performance. Milepost GCC can reduce the amount of time it
takes to reach that level by a factor of 10.
Robots Monitor the Melting Arctic
Using these data, scientists would also be able to measure
the speed, direction and topographic height of ice caps whose
sub-glacial bedrock topography is already mapped – thereby providing
critical information that can be used to improve models of glacier
mechanics.
You will be happy to know that our beloved Pleo has been and
still is very much available here in the U.S. thanks to consumer
electronics and entertainment leader, Senario. We are currently
servicing the market with our inventory. We do buy various products from
Jetta and of course they manufactured our current inventory. Should
Senario continue with new manufactured product, Jetta will indeed be the
manufacturer.
Bored Mars Robot Turns to Star Gazing

Random Robot Roundup
Pololu 3pi : the 10,000 Mile Review
I see a war coming, the "Artilect War," not between the
artilects and human beings, as in the movie Terminator, but between the
Terrans, Cosmists and Cyborgists. This will be the worst, most
passionate war that humanity has ever known ... There will be gigadeath
Human vs Robot Space Exploration
"Robotic missions are much cheaper and may provide more
scientific information, but they don't catch the public imagination in
the same way, and they don't spread the human race into space, which I'm
arguing should be our long-term strategy. If the human
race is to continue for another million years, we will have to boldly go
where no one has gone before."
Robots: Celebrity Robots Brought to Life
Can the Death of Robots Teach us about Life?
When the bits
describing the organization of the organism are erased, the only place
where the organism prevails is in the observer. The same is for robots.
The same is for animals. The same is for humans.
MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. (Quite a few mini-robots to build in a weekend.)
| Make a Reprap Robot Part 1: The Electronics - Weekend Project Podcast | Make a Repstrap (Part 2) - Weekend Projects Podcast |
Reprap foundation or make your own since the whole project is open source. (More Computer Numerically Controlled, CNC Links)
Mill Engine. Engineering and Mechanical Portal. Engineering links, Mechanical links, engineers, machines, engines. Civil Engineering, architecture, construction, transportation, etc...
Search for Robotics related links on A Science Portal. Ideal for Science Projects. Links to cutting edge science related web sites. Cutting edge science. Research and breakthroughs using State of the Art and discovery's of new sciences, physics, cosmology, the Universe, power sources, control units, memory devices, displays, portable computers, nanotechnology, organic, biological, medical, neurology, mobile, portable, WAP, G3, electronic, etc. Earth science, engineering and bandwidth solutions. Robotics, gadgets, chemical and telecommunications. Social, psychology and politics. A look at the future?
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Stickybot is an embodiment of our hypotheses about the requirements for mobility on vertical surfaces using dry adhesion. The main point is that we don't need more adhesion, we need controllable adhesion. The essential ingredients are:
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Robots
Jeff's All Things Robot (lots of) links
Robotics (plenty of them) links Even MoreRobotics (plenty) Links
Robot Maker Includes Micro and Nano Class Geared Motors
Used Robots Integrator of Used Industrial Robots. Robot Resources:
| Robot Housekeeper | Building Small Robots: Making One Cubic Inch Micro-Sumo Robots and Smaller. |
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Picks up dirty dishes from the table and carries them to the sink for washing. Then cleans the floor. |
Building Small Robots: Making One Cubic Inch Micro-Sumo Robots and Smaller - More DIY How To Projects |
Dr. Rrobot Inc., is a developer and manufacturer of mobile robotics technology, providing autonomous robots solutions tailored for commercial and industrial security, monitoring and inventory applications.
T. R. I, Toy Robots Initiative aims to commercialize robotics technologies for human-robot collaboration in education, toys, entertainment and art. (Don't underrate because of the work Toy)
RoboGames (Formally ROBOlympics), is the world's largest open robot competition. We invite the best minds from around the world to compete.
Open Directory - Computers: Robotics: Building
Robot Haven A Refuges for Robots.
Robot Group TX artists and engineers who shared a common vision: utilizing technology to provide and explore new mediums for art. Through the synergy of fusing art and technology.
Triangle Amateur Robotics (TAR) is dedicated to creating personal robots for fun and knowledge. (North Carolina State University campus)
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Robodance 4 works with i-Sobot and Wiimote Robosapien Dance Machine. MAKE: Blog pal, and author of Robodance, Robert Oschler, is in the process of updating this free Robosapien control program so that it can also work with the new Tomy i-Sobot, using the IR connection on the robot and the Nintendo Wii remote controller (Wiimote). This video offers a sneak peak of Robodance 4's capabilities. [Read this article] [Comment on this article
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Obstacle Avoiding Walking Robot) This Instructable shows how to make a little walking robot which avoids obstacles (much like many commercially available options). But what's the fun in buying a toy when you can instead start with a motor, sheet of plastic and pile of bolts and proceed to build your own. Well I hope you share this attitude and please enjoy. |
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HOW TO - Build a robot arm (robot arm clock videos)
Society of Robots has a great video of a robot arm-clocks The robot arm is probably the most mathematically complex robot you could ever build. As such, this tutorial cant tell you everything you need to know. Instead, I will take shortcuts and just talk about the bear minimum you need to know to build an effective robot arm. Please bear with the math . . . enjoy!To get you started, here is a video of a robot arm assignment I had when I took Robotic Manipulation back in college. My group programmed it to type the current time into the keyboard . . . (lesson learned, don't crash robot arms into your keyboard at full speed while testing) HOW TO - Build a robot arm Link. |
| In The Future, All Break-Dancing B-Boys Will Be Robots | Mobile robot does CNC, (More CNC) :- |
| : | Sparky - Autonomous Telepresence Robot Gomi Style, they build a low-cost telepresence robot. There are some "problems" with this video. It's not an "autonomous" robot if *you* control it and the show is called Gomi Style, and they say the robot is made of junk they have lying around, but then, it's made with the Vex robotics system, the MAKE Controller, a Mac Mini, an iSight camera, and an LCD monitor. Still, they manage to make a pretty decent telepresence bot for probably under $1000. |
Large Database of Robotics videos displays of innovation.
Robotics fairs and exhibitions
Robots Dreams Robot Video's Robots Resources
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Another robotastic offering (and an HTML in-joke at the same time) from Chop Shop, best known (around here, anyway) for their 51 robots shirt (which, incidentally, is now available for pre-order with glow-in-the-dark robots). The Robots No Follow shirt [...]
Video Friday: RoboGeisha (NSFW) Note: this movie trailer contains lots of obviously fake violence, but the really NSFW bits are from 1:48 to 1:54 and 2:17 to 2:22. Skip those and you should be okay.
Geisha is Japanese girl.
Geisha is beautiful.
Geisha is wild.
Geisha is… ROBOT!
Yeah, awesome! Now we’re talking!
GEISHA MISSILE!
GEISHA CHAINSAW!
GEISHA TRANSFORM!!!
But wait, there’s more!
FRIED SHRIMP!
BUST MACHINE GUN!
HIP KATANA!
This movie [...]
Have a pressing need for an autonomous robot car capable of avoiding obstacles? Instead of buying one, how about making your own from an old toy, an Arduino board, and a few sensors? The video from Make explains how, and you can find all the details you need on Dean Segovis’ website at the link [...]
ZMP Robot Car Avoids Obstacles, Costs $7000 ZMP’s 1/10 scale robot cars are designed so that groups who are working on DARPA Challenge style autonomous vehicles won’t have to shell out for the real thing, but can instead test their software on something a bit more affordable. The ZMP car has integrated stereo vision along with an optional image recognition module, as [...]
AeroVironment, makers of the Raven UAV and the Dragon Eye UAV (among other things), have been working for several years now on a DARPA funded program to develop micro nano air vehicles that use flapping wings as a lift and propulsion source. Now, we’ve seen a lot of robots that use flapping wings, but only [...]
SCRATCHbot Uses Whiskers For Search And Rescue This is the second whiskery rat-bot we’ve seen in just a few weeks, which is a little random, to say the least. SCRATCHbot hails from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, and has been in development since 2003. It’s designed to seek out humans “in environments where visually dominant predators perform badly.” Not to imply that SCRATCHbot [...]
Building robots isn’t easy, and everybody has to start somewhere. Me? My first robot was a cute little photovore, but I had to teach myself to solder in order to build it. If that’s a big first step for you (it’s okay to admit it), iBotz kits are small, cheap, fun, and a good way [...]
Awesome Retro Robots Revealed In Japan I don’t speak any Japanese, so unfortunately I’ve only been able to understand little snippets of information, but according to an article on Robot Watch, an autonomy of robots (yeah, I’m trying out a new collective noun) designed and constructed by Jiro Aizawa in the 50s and 60s have been located in a wearhouse in [...]
This is not, of course, the first steam powered thing we’ve seen here on BotJunkie, nor is it the first steam powered tank… But I’m pretty sure it’s the first one that’s driven by a humanoid, in some kind of steampunk/robot mashup. What’s the point? Er, I have no idea, but it’s got cool lighting [...]
Humanoid Tranforms Into Robot Car I think this is the fourth, and hopefully by no means the last, transforming robot car we’ve had the pleasure of posting… Here’s the other one two and three. What sets this apart (aside from the theme music) is that it looks like it may have been built from scratch as part of a robotics [...]
Robots No Follow Shirt
DIY Robot Car Avoids Obstacles, Costs $70
AeroVironment NAV Flies Like A Hummingbird, Will Look Like One Too
iBotz Beginner Robot Kits
Video Wednesday: i-SOBOT Steam Tank
Feild Robotics Center the future of field robotics by creating automated work machines for land, sea, air and space.
TeleRAD is a radiation survey robot. The name stands for distance Radiation Absorbed Dose or in other words detecting radiation levels remotely. TeleRAD uses a Geiger counter to detect radiation levels.
Distributed Boundary Coverage with a Swarm of Miniature Robots. investigate collaborative coverage with a self-organizing swarm of minimalist robots. The inspection of the compressor section of a (jet) turbine engine is a motivating case study (see IROS'06 and BSSAC'07 for a high-level overview).
Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference
Your first robot - the beetle robot
How to build your first PICAXE robot
Total Robots Total Robots BEAM. The term BEAM is an acronym for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics and Mechanics. BEAM robotics was invented (and is patented) by Dr Mark W. Tilden whilst he was a student at University in Canada. Includes OOPic.
How-To: Build BEAM Vibrobots The key to Vibrobot movement is a motor (or motors) that employs an unbalanced weight. Pager and other motors used to create vibration alerts in consumer electronics use this technique. As the motor shaft spins, the weight on the shaft, being off-kilter, makes the motor, and therefore the entire pager, vibrate. Hook such a motor up to a little robo-critter with four fixed legs, and when the motor fires and the weight starts spinning, the bot will skitter across the floor.
BEAM robotics is the brain child of Mark W. Tilden who is currently working at "Los Alamos National Laboratory" in Los Alamos, New Mexico, US. BEAM robotics as described in the BEAM rule book: 1/: A description of what aspects a roving robot creature could contain. BEAM is a triple acronym which stands for:-| Biology | Electronics | Aesthetics | Mechanics |
| Building | Evolution | Anarchy | Modularity |
| Biotechnology | Ethnology | Analogy | Morphology |
A Beginner's Guide to BEAM - The BEAM design approach creates nimble robots from simple components, with no programming required.
Robolympics Gallery (BEAMBots)
Slarbotics offers competition robot kits, solar-powered robots, books, electronic components, motors, parts and information on the expanding field of BEAM Robotics. Enjoy our website, and we welcome your comments.
Solar Powered Picaxe Microbot (Vibrobot) This microbot is also called a vibrobot because it vibrates in order to generate horizontal motion.
Solarbotics is a BEAM robotics community server. Complete BEAMbot Circuits BEAM From the Ground Up
A Beginner's Guide to BEAM (Makezine)
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HOW TO - Make a Bristlebot a tiny directional vibrobot made from a toothbrush! The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot with an agenda. The ingredients? One toothbrush, a battery, and a pager motor. The result? Serious fun. The BristleBot is our take on the popular vibrobot, a simple category of robot that is controlled by a single vibrating (eccentric) motor. Some neat varieties include the mint-tin version as seen in Make Magazine (check the video), and the kid's art bot: a vibrobot with pens for feet. |
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Robot Arm With Fluidic Muscles. Airic's_arm is a robotic arm inspired by your own arm. The company describes it as a "combination of mechatronics and the biological model of a human being." The mechanical foundation - the "skeleton" - of Festo's Airic's arm is literally a metal version of the human skeletal structure. The radius and ulna (primary bones of the forearm), the metacarpals (hand and fingers) and the shoulder and shoulder blade are duplicated |
Bittybot help you make smaller robots.
Robot Education. The Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) applies and evaluates robots as a context for computer science education.
Spider Robot Project Page An 'in-progress' project involving the addition of a PIC micro brain to a small robot.
PIC Guide (With Links)
Proton Geeks Proton PIC Users Group
PICAXE microcontrollers are exciting, low-cost, re-programmable chips that can be used as low-cost 'brains' in many kinds of electronic project. For further information browse the index bar on the left hand side of the screen.
PIC & Electronic Development on a Shoestring
ooPIC, (Object-Oriented PIC), is a different approach in microcontrollers that uses objects to control the attached hardware while the application program focuses on controlling the objects. Programmed in Basic, C, or Java syntax styles. Uses Object-oriented concepts. More Object oriented programming links.
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Create-mounted dot-matrix printer. The Create is essentially a Roomba
without the vacuum. This allows us to add a greater payload and gives us
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Robots Podcast for news and views on robotics. In addition to insights from high-profile professionals, Robots will take you for a ride through the world's research labs, robotics companies and their latest innovations.:-
Markus Fischer, head of the Bionic Learning Network project and head of Corporate Design talks transferring technology from biomimetic research to actual products and their work on the AquaPenguin, AquaRay and AirJelly. Victor Zykov, PhD and PostDoc from Cornell University talks about modular robotics and introduces his bio-inspired Molecubes.
Robots: Celebrity Robots Brought to Life Fred Barton, also known as "Robotman", introduces Robby the Robot and talks about building robot collectibles for museums and fellow enthusiasts.
Dirk Wollherr, senior researcher at the Technical University of Munich, and Astrid Weiss from the University of Salzburg on the design and the goals of the Autonomous City Explorer (ACE) robot.
Robots: Robot actors at the theater Swiss theater director Christian Denisart talks about his latest play where 3 of the 5 main characters are mobile robots. Nicolas Tomatis, CEO of Bluebotics Ltd., describes the three robotic actors, an obedient robot dog, a distinguished robot butler and a sensual female, in more detail.
MIT's Nikolaus Correll on his robot swarms for turbine inspection and his latest research on cooperating networks. In part two Roderich Gross introduces the swarm-bots and his work on robot cooperation, self-assembly and division of labour.
Robots: Giant Roaming Creatures Theo Jansen describes his Strandbeest, giant walking creatures that can walk and sense their environments. We then talk to Jaimie Mantzel who is building a giant 6-legged robot on his mountain in Vermont.
William "Red" Whittaker, director of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about his team's bid for the Google Lunar X Prize. In this episode we speak with Chris Rogers about the use of LEGO in educating young children in engineering, math and science. We then speak with Liz Herron on her experiences with children using LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic kits at the LEGO Education Centre.
In this episode we speak with Davide Faconti, leader of the REEM project, one of the few European contenders in humanoid robotics. We then speak with Jun Ho Oh from South Korea who was the general chair of the last International Conference on Humanoid Robots for his snapshot view of the field as well as the HUBO humanoids developed in his lab. This second episode in a two-part series on Robot Ethics interviews Ronald Arkin, Regents' Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Georgia Tech University in the US. Topics include military robots, robots in the society, medical robots and legal responsibilities.
This first episode in a two part series on Robot Ethics interviews Noel Sharkey, Professor of Public Engagement, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Topics include military robots, robots in the society, medical robots and legal responsibilities. David Levy, author of the book "Love + Sex with Robots" and Kathleen Richardson who is a doctor of Robot Anthropology at Cambridge University discuss the future of human-robot relationships, both physical and emotional.
Raúl Ordóñez from the Motoman Robotics Lab talks about research in industrial robotics and how he hopes to use visual servoing as a feedback mechanism allowing robot arms to accomplish complex tasks such as juggling.
Robots: 2008 New Year's Special We review the biggest events in robotics in 2008 and look to what 2009 has to offer with our panel of experts: Dan Kara from Robotics Trends, Terry Fong from the NASA Ames Research Center, Dario Floreano from the EPFL, Steve Rainwater from robots.net, and Minoru Asada from Osaka University.
Mark Tilden, passionate robot builder with WowWee Robotics, talks about designing robots for children, and what he thinks that scientists and researchers can learn from the toy industry. Gil Weinberg who is the Director of Music Technology at Georgia Tech, presents his wooden robot drummer Haile that is capable of playing with human teachers and even evolving its own beats to reach robotic improvisation. He also introduces his latest robot, Shimon the Marimba player. Our second guest, Atsuo Takanishi describes the Waseda Flutist, a robot that mimics human lungs, vocal chords, and lips to accurately play the flute.
Robert Full from UC Berkley presents his research on animal locomotion and how his insights have been inspiring engineers to create robots. Auke Ijspeert from the EPFL then shares some thoughts on bio-inspired locomotion.
Robots: Androids, Human Presence and the Uncanny Valley Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka University introduces his androids, including the robotic replicate of his then 5 year old daughter, a female android modeled after the NHK news announcer Ayako Fujii and a copy of himself, the Geminoid. He explains Android Science and how his explorations of the uncanny valley may help to understand human presence. This episode then features the last quarter of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's "Selkies".
Sarah Bergbreiter from the University of Maryland gives us an overview of her work with robotic mobile sensor networks, walking and jumping micro-robots as well as fast prototyping of novel robots. Aaron Hoover at Berkeley talks about novel manufacturing techniques with smart composites. This episode then features the third part of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's "Selkies". In this episode Raffaello D'Andrea of KIVA Systems describes how hundreds of autonomous robots can be used to automate warehouses. This episode then features the second part of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's "Selkies".
In this show we dive into the world of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with Navinda Kottege from the Australian National University. In the second part Marc Sherman from Teledyne RD Instruments tells us more about AUV technology and the importance of Doppler Velocity Logs (DVLs) for underwater navigation. Finally we are treated to the first part of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's story "Selkies".
Robots: An Uncertain Revolution In this episode we dive into the revolution brought on by the field of probabilistic robotics with Claudio Mattiussi. We then launch a most "uncertain" competition to see how good our listeners are at making probabilistic predictions to estimate the cleaning capabilities of a Roomba robot.
This episode discusses bacteria-propelled micro robots and their potential for medical applications inside the human body. In the first part Metin Sitti explains how his robots can join forces with bacteria. In the second part gastroenterologist Mark Schattner discusses current uses and future potential from a medical perspective.
Robots: DelFly and Europe's Micro Air Vehicle Competition In this episode we cover two major events in aerial robotics: the announcement of the DelFly Micro and the 2008 European Micro Air Vehicle (EMAV) Competition. We first speak with Christophe de Wagter, a member of the Dutch team that's been churning out amazing flapping-wing robots in the last few years. Our second interview features Peter Vörsmann, chair of this year's EMAV competition, to explain the latest advances in autonomous flying vehicles.
This episode gives an insight into part of the online robotics community. We interview Steve Rainwater on his experience with robots.net, the first and probably largest robot community site online. Mikell Taylor shares her experience with the IEEE Spectrum Automaton blog and also gives us a quick insight into her current job at Bluefin Robotics.
Robots: Modular and Reconfigurable Robotics This episode centers on modular robots. We interview Kasper Stoy on research in Modular Robotics. Robert Fitch gives an insight into Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots.
Manuela Veloso, President-Elect of the International RoboCup Federation, gives a look behind the scenes of robot soccer.
Robots: A Robot Fly at Harvard and at the MoMA This episode centers on the robotic fly, featuring interviews with professor Robert Wood at Harvard university and with Paola Antonelli, the curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Our inaugural episode centers on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, featuring interviews with professor Daniel Huttenlocher from Team Cornell and Rick Yoder from Velodyne, a producer of LIDAR sensors used by several teams in the challenge.
Robots: 23 May 2008, Trailer 1 Robots: Coming Soon! This is the trailer for the new Robots podcast, your source for news and views on robotics. Our inaugural episode will be released on 6 June 2008.
Robots: From Animals to Automation
Robots: Autonomous City Explorer
Robots: Collective Coverage and Self-Assembly
Robots: The Race to the Moon
Robots: The REEM-B and HUBO Humanoids
Robots: Robot Ethics (Part 1)
Robots: Industrial Robots in Research
Robots: Robot Toys
Robots: Bio-inspired locomotion
Robots: Jumping and Crawling in Millirobots
Robots: Swarming Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Robots: Bacteria-propelled microrobots
Robots: The Robot Blogosphere
Robots: Robot Soccer
Robots: Cornell Racing Team and Velodyne's LIDAR Sensor
Doctronics Design & Technology and Electronics Resources. Discovering PICs
Mozomsite Covers PIC Microcontroller. Stepper Motors. Semiconductors Fundamentals, etc...
74194 Stepper Motor Driver form Model Railroad & Misc. Electronics More Electronics
Manage 5 stepper motors for the LPT signals step-dir Automatically Translated from Russian
OpenServo is an open community-based project started by Mike Thompson with the goal of creating a low-cost digital servo for robotics.
This 1.5 m. (5 foot) tall robot can play the violin thanks to its human like dexterity. It is one of a number of robots Toyota is developing to assist humans in Japan's greying society.
Mythbusters - Mona Lisa drawn in 80 milliseconds This video shows the difference between a CPU (robot) and a GPU by demonstrating their painting capacities.
Scientists at Reading University have created a robot that is controlled by living rat brain cells grown in a lab. The ACM-R5 robot snake can glide through water elegantly. It was developed by the Hirose-Fukushima Robotics Lab in Japan.
The Trons is a self-playing robot band consisting of four robots - two guitar players (one of whom also does the vocals), a keyboard player and a drummer.
Big Dog - an ultra stable quadruped robot BigDog is a dynamically stable robot using four legs for movement. This video demonstrates how it handles being kicked, balancing on slippery ice and overcoming obstacles.
Robots with a mind of their own are now being created which can physically join together and self-assemble to fulfill different functions.
Tilted Twister - Robot Rubik's Cube Solver An ingenious lego robot solves a Rubik's Cube in just a few minutes.
"When I brought home a Roboquad robot the other day and started playing with it, our resident guardian K9 was none too pleased. Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical cockroaches and some cool self-configuring robots.
These robotic fish developed at Essex University look and move almost like the real thing. Two dinosaurs, the Tyrannosaurus rex and Parasaurolophus, have been brought to life by Japanese scientists.
An amazing automated lego factory that produces little lego cars. A fascinating (albeit somewhat slow-paced) video that truly shows the power of lego. Walking and running humanoid robot which can carry and deliver items. It can run at a speed of up to of 6 km/h and slalom around obstacles.
The "Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot" is an experimental mechanism in which a live cockroach is the pilot. It stands on top of a trackball which has been modified to control a three-wheeled robot. A real transforming robot which can turn from a car into a humanoid-like robot. A larger scale version would have been even more amazing.
These smooth moving Sony robots have some impressive dance moves.
Humanoid robot plays the Violin
Rat-brain controlled robot
New Zealand's All Robot Music Band - The Trons
Self-organizing robots
Puppy vs Robot
Robotic Fish
A Lego Mindstorms Car Factory
Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot
Dancing Robots by Sony
AiboPet and other'Pets (robotic or otherwise)
TeRK. (Telepresence Robot Kit), Educational Robotics - Vehicles for Teaching and Learning.
Clockwork Robot create amazing paper engineering for you. Also create stereoscopic (3D) images for print or web publication
OrionRobot Robotics resource and community website. There is a great deal of technical, creative and background information on robotics for hobbyists and even those more experienced. Some areas of the site also form a dictionary for some of the terms and concepts used in robotics, electronics, programming, Lego building and engineering.
Foxbox.Nl
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Robots And Machines. A lot of Lego Mindstorms Robotics Projects.
EURON ( European Robotics Research Network). It is a community of people with a common interest in working to make better robots.
International Federation of Robotics
Robot Matrix This portal is all about robots/robotics. It delicates to all who are interested in the development of robotics - from beginners to professionals, manufacturers, suppliers, direct end users and even researchers. A comprehensive web portal on robotic technology. It contains both commercial and non-commercial information on robotic technology. More importantly, we always welcome useful user input, feedback or contributions in terms of publish useful articles on Robotics technologies in the portal. Humanoid Robots.
Telepresence Robotkit Educational Robots Vehiculs for teaching and learning.
Carl Kenner's Home Page. Programmable Input Emulator (GlovePIE or PIE). Control Games with Gestures, Speech, and Other Input Devices! With GlovePIE you can now play any game, or control any software or MIDI devices, using whatever controls you want. This includes joysticks, gamepads, mice, keyboards, MIDI input devices, HMDs, Wiimotes, trackers, and of course, Virtual Reality gloves!
Ted Larson (Balancing Robot and other links).
Trossen Robotics, your source for Hobby and Educational Robotics:-
The iBotz line of educational robot kits are an ideal introduction for children ages 8 and up wanting to investigate the fascinating world of electronics and intelligent machines. Developed with the help of the Open University in the United Kingdom, these kits have a strong focus on teaching not only how to build the robot, [...]
New Phoenix Demonstration Videos! We’ve been a bit quiet on the blog front as we are getting ready for Robogames 2009 in a little over a week and are furiously working away to finish up projects for demonstration. Our video production crew has been keeping busy also, and just finished up some new demonstration videos for the Phoenix Hexapod, [...]
This has to be one of our hottest selling Robotics controllers yet. Our initial stock sold out almost immediately, the 2nd shipment sold out before we even received it in, and the third shipment received today is already half way gone! Get ‘em while they’re hot!
The Roboard RB-100 is a new breed of robotics controller: [...]
Our video crew has been hard at work showcasing our various robotic products, and recently highlighted the Bioloid and Hexbug robots.
Is your house tidy? Are you lacking pesky insects in your kitchen? HEXBUGs are your solution!
Why deal with real insects when you can fill that void with these cute little robobugs! Hexbugs are tiny, cute, [...]
I remember being blown away at how strong my first hobby servos were when I built my Hexapod 2 from Lynxmotion about 12 years ago. In comparison, they were literally just a fraction of the strength of modern digital servos, and the gap widens even further when put up against a robotic actuator such as [...]
OLLO is a reconfigurable robot construction kit for beginners of any age. Using an easy to build plates and rivets system you’ll be on your way to making your own robot in no time! The OLLO Bug Kit has very detailed and well illustrated instructions to build 4 different types of robotic bugs that can [...]
While most participating in the robotic educational and combat competitions know the Banebots name rather well, we wanted to make sure that other roboticists out there knew how awesome their line of wheels are.
Finding the right wheels for a robot is often a difficult ordeal. Matching wheel size to hubs and motor shafts can [...]
We have more goodies in and cannot wait to share! We’re serious, it’s like Christmas morning each day we get new stuff in, just ask our extremely annoyed shipping/receiving department about it. New product shows up and our techs swarm in like vultures!
First up we have the Propeller Education Kit which is an absolute steal [...]
You’ve all seen and heard the robotic dancing sensation known as Keepon, and now you can own one!
When Keepon first debuted, bouncing along to Spoon’s “I Turn My Camera On”, the tech community went nuts! The simple, cute external appearance of this robot and it’s natural ability to bop along with music was an instant [...]
Want to win a Bioloid? Announcing the TRC Tutorial Contest! Time flies! It’s that time again to officially announce the next round of the Trossen Robotics Community (TRC) Contest. We had quite a bit of success with our previous Project Contests and a lot of very cool entries, however we are going to mix things up this time.
This round is going to be a Tutorial [...]
iBotz Beginner Robot Kits!
The Roboard is Back in Stock!
RX-64: Just one more weapon in Skynet’s arsenal
Banebots Hub & Wheel System
Announcing the Dancebot USB!
Surveyor Corporation Surveyor SRV-1 Wireless Mobile Robot with Video for Telepresence, Autonomous and Swarm Operation.
RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries.
Robothon a national event that showcases the capabilities and technological developments in robotics from the amateur robotics community. At this event, people from around the world come together to present new robotic technologies, share ideas, meet fellow robotic enthusiasts, show off their robotic creations, and compete in many robotic competitions and activities.
Bryan's Robotics Journal Robotics without the soldering iron.
Converting a Floppy Disk Drive into a Simple Robot Generation5 aims to be the most comprehensive Artificial Intelligence site on the Internet. Community-orientated, Generation5 deals with all AI topics including robotics, neural networks, genetic algorithms, AI programming, home automation and much more.
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Instructable for the absolute n00by robot wannabe. I have noticed a huge jump in the number of beginners getting into the hobby and the number of "how do I" question... |
Robots wanted Any condition, any type... ROBOTS WANTED: Dead or Alive, Whole or Parts, Please help the virtual robot museum grow! Some of the Robots that I am interested in: HeathKit (HERO JR, HERO 1, HERO 2000, Arm Trainer), Androbots (Topo, BOB, BOB/XA, Fred, and Androman), RB5X, Artec GEMINI, Omnibots, Rhino Robots, MAXX STEELE, NEWTON SynPet, Comro Tot, Marvin Mark I, RoPet, Servitron, ELAMI, CYBER I, HUBOT, Hearoid, Turtles, Etc. Also looking for Robot accesories and technical literature. Please don't throw that old Robot away! Robotic Gallery
Hobby Robotics. Hobby robot building plans, circuits, software and more... (More Blog Links)
Twin Cities Robotics Group A loose affiliation of people interested in robots, located in the Twin Cities Metro area, USA.
STAMP Parallax. A BASIC Stamp microcontroller is a single-board computer that runs the Parallax PBASIC language interpreter in it's microcontroller. The developer's code is stored in an EEPROM, which can also be used for data storage. The PBASIC language has easy-to-use commands for basic I/O, like turning devices on or off, interfacing with sensors, etc. More advanced commands let the BASIC Stamp module interface with other integrated circuits, communicate with each other, and operate in networks. STAMP In Education
Wall-E project controlled by a BS2P40 stamp CPU and for motive power and two robosapienV2 hip motors.
Getting Started with an Accelerometer. (Forums Parallax Basic STAMP, electronic chips etc. Parallax) Acceleration is a measure of how quickly speed changes. Just as a speedometer is a meter that measures speed, an accelerometer is a meter that measures acceleration. You can use the ability to sense acceleration to measure a variety of things that are very useful to electronic and robotic projects and designs. More Forum Links.
nBot Balancing Robot (Also has quite a number of Robot links). (Also has quite a number of Robot links).
Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG), Robot Links Low Cost Gyro-Accelerometer Combo Sensor In building a balancing robot you need a gyroscope unit and an accelerometer unit in order to get it to balance.
Corky'z Robotz (A STAMP Project)
CTG robotics Configurable Robotics allows the Designer to configure a robot by selecting from a wide range of interface boards and a variety of base designs to meet any task requirement. By using this configurable system the Designer can quickly assemble a robot and immediately start writing task software.
Ryan Dellanas Robotic Home Page
Autopilot: Do it yourself UAV (Helecopter)
Building Robots with CoachLab II and Tech Card Materials.
Stephen Paul Linder. Student Projects.
Popular Mechanics:-
To better understand animal behavior, scientists are dressing up data-gathering robots in animal garb. By fitting in with their unsuspecting friends, robot bees, turkeys and lizards are recording intimate details of habitats that were never before seen.
Diving Robots Could Recover Air France 447's Black Box As more details of Air France 447's final minutes become known, deep-sea technology experts are saying that the recovery of the aircraft's black boxes will be difficult, but not impossible, with the help of deep-sea-diving robots.
Two robots can defuse dirty bombs, take on riots and fight fires-giving their controller a comfortable distance from dangerous situations. Here is an up-close look from the show floor of Robobusiness 2009.
Safety Snake: The Construction Worker's New Best Friend? Inspecting high-rise construction sites is a dangerous job, but somebody-or some robot-has to do it. Engineers at Virginia Tech built the HyDRAS-Ascent II to climb by encircling a beam and twisting its 90-degree joints in sequence.
Scientists studying animal behavior and movement have developed robotic birds and bugs capable of anything from surveillance to space exploration. Here are five of our favorite biologically inspired machines.
Inside FIRST Robotics 2009: Robots are Now Ready to Rumble This week, high school robotics teams from around the country concluded the six-week build ahead of the regional FIRST 2009 Robotics Competitions. We dropped in on George Westinghouse High to unveil their design for this year's competition.
Help for disabled people has increasingly been the domain for skilled dogs. But Georgia Tech's Healthcare Robotics Lab has another solution. Their answer: The EI-E, a robot that can perform basic household tasks on command.
MIT Unveils Intelligent Robot Forklift for War Zones The new, U.S. Army-funded forklift robot recognizes voice commands, can learn the layout of a makeshift warehouse and operate out of doors. It may be able to save lives on the field and make warehouse work more efficient at home.
This week, high school students around the country-and from 10 other nations-began the round-the-clock effort to build a robot fit for international competition before time runs out in mid-February.
5 Homemade Robots That Offer Hope for DIY Geeks (With Video) Ever wanted to build your own robot army, but didn't think you had the chops? Take heart in a middle-aged software engineer who's slapped together everything from automated furniture to a walking webcam-and even a Wii-mote to rule them all.
The Odyssey IV can reach depths of more than 19,000 ft to explore the ocean's depths on its own, fight strong currents and gather crucial data. Our intrepid reporter uses it to run down a seagull.
Without Winner, TechX Offers Gut Check for Worldwide War Bots Popular Mechanics was the only major media outlet onhand in Singapore for this weekend's TechX Challenge with answers to those questions-and videos-from the next robo research frontier.
From Singapore, PM gets a sneak peek at the latest new robot showdown. And these iRobot mods could lead the way for smaller countries to hand-build autonomous armies of their own.
Inside a Student-Built FIRST Robot: Interactive How It Works You don't need an expensive lab to engineer a sophisticated robot-just the vision of a maverick inventor, the spur of competition and a bunch of high school students armed with power tools.
Following the lead of DARPA's Urban Challenge, the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence has held its own robotics competition. PM profiles the winning team and three others that took innovative approaches to the challenge.
Robots That Dress Like Animals for Science
Robotic Task Force: A Two-Robot, Bomb-Defusing, Riot-Controlling, Firefighting Team (With Video!)

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5 Robots that Look, Act and Are Designed Like Animals
Robots That Help The Disabled (With Video)
Students Race for Lunar Cred in New FIRST Robotics Game (With Video!)
MIT Submarine Is Most Autonomous Robot Ocean Researcher Yet
TechX Contest Preps Non-Superpower Military Bots for Urban War
Top 4 Military Robot Teams From Britain's Grand Challenge
i, Randy Robot Showcase.
URC Robots Universal Robot Controls & Automation (URC)
The Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics (LPR) is in the Computer Science Department at UMass, Amherst.
Lynx Motion intelligently designed, precision engineered robot kits and components.
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The Wooden menace - Robotic Arm. This project is a robotic arm made mostly from Wood. It cost less than $50 to make and has alot of the functionality that any normal robotic arm would have. It is controlled by a PIC MicroController and cloned PS1 controller. |
RoboPUC is the name of the Branch of Robotics of the School of Engineering of the PUC. This is a group of professors and students, whose objectives are to harness the interest by the robotics by means of the development of projects, works altogether and aids for students. (Translated to English).
Robot SDKs Learn about new Software Development Kits for robots and robotic-enhanced products, including AIBO, Lego Mindstorms, Evolution Robotics and various open source projects. From About AI
Robotic software development. The software for robotic controller is developed in collaboration with the CISAS of University of Padova. (Andrea Bulgarelli's Home Page)
RT Middleware Developed for Realizing Open Robot Architecture. For Creation of New Industry of Service Robotsx
Robot Gossip Blogspot (More Blog Links)
Blog about Robots (More Blog Links)
Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog Robots (More Blog Links)
Mikael's MHEX II Walking Hexapod Project
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Introduce Themselves. ITU Telecom World 2006, Hong Kong. NEC is showing their robot PaPeRo. In the video, PaPeRo tell us its name in Japanese, English, Chinese (Putonghua), German and French; afterwards they dance together. Watch the video. |
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Robot Constructor: Build Your Own Robot (Game) Your mission is to construct robots which can successfully collect the precious golden cubes scattered about a variety of hostile zones. Robots must be able to navigate their way around each zone to collect the gold cubes while at the same time avoiding hazards and making sure they've enough energy by periodically recharging or refuelling.. |
Phoenix Area Robotics eXperimenters
The
Robotics Laboratory. (Department of Mechanical Engineering).
University of Maryland. Affiliated with Center
for Automation Research is the Robotics Laboratory of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, which is directed by Prof. Jackson C.S. Yang. It was
established in 1983, with primary activities in education, research and
industrial interaction.
UC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab
Robots, Robotics And Automation for Talking Electronics
Robostrider The study of live water striders led us to attempt the construction of a mechanical water strider "Robostrider". The challenge was to build a device capable of self propulsion light enough to be supported by surface tension. At the scale where surface tension is important, the weight of a handmade water strider increases with complexity; therefore it was important to develop a very simple driving mechanism.
Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project
Robot Insects an information resource for students, robot enthusiasts and anybody else who is looking for information on six-legged robots. As well as offering a comprehensive foundation in hexapod robot subjects this site also offers a carefully researched resource page. Robot Insect Resources Links.
The ME2011 Robot Project is a chance for students in ME2011 Introduction to Engineering to be creative, to face a substantial challenge, to show off, and to stretch themselves as designers.
Software Verification and Validation Plan (SVVP) for the Robot Development Project (RDP). The goal of the project is to deliver a software package capable of controing the ASEA Irb6 robot at the faculty of Electrical Engineering of Eindhoven University of Technology. The project and the documents to be delivered are organised according to the ESA Software Engineering Standards [ESA]). The project's verification and validation activities are described this SVVP, it also contains plans for testing the software.
Field And Space Robotics Laboratory Microbots project studies a new mission concept for planetary exploration, based on the deployment of a large number of small spherical mobile robots ( microbots ) over vast areas of a planet's surface and subsurface, including structures such as caves and near-surface crevasses. Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Microrobotics and Millirobotics Research. Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project.
Biomimetic Millisystem Lab harness features of animal manipulation, locomotion, sensing, actuation, mechanics, dynamics, and control strategies to radically improve millirobot capabilities. Research in the lab ranges from fundamental understanding of mechanical principles to novel fabrication techniques to system integration of autonomous millirobots.
Autonomous Jumping Microrobots
Microbot L1 Electronics (Translated to English)
Precise Miniature Robots and Desktop Flexible Production AOLAB and UEC. Tokyo and Japan, (Japanese translated) Aoyama Lab for Desktop Micro Robot Factory.
Rug Warrior Robot Dreams The Rug Warrior Pro robot is an outgrowth of an MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) robotics design course.
Society of Robots (Includes The $50 Robot Tutorial)
The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.
IGERT Neuromechanics is a multidisciplinary graduate program at Case Western Reserve University. Neuro-mechanical systems include natural, man-made, or hybrid systems combining neural controllers and mechanical peripheries. Examples include natural organisms, biologically inspired robots, and neuroprostheses for restoring motor function in the disabled.
Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab dedicated to the advancement of the field of robotics using insights gained through the study of biological mechanisms.
The Robot Scientist Project A multidisciplinary research project involving expertise from Computer Science and Microbiology,
Robotics Research Topics. Roadmap of AIM Lab Robot Development.
Robot Enthusiasts! Firmly Founded. And Proudly Growing with over 4,000 members from across the globe.
The Robotics Research Laboratory is part of the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES) at USC. Robot Movies
Physical computing. It's an approach to learning how humans communicate through computers that starts by considering how humans express themselves physically.
Techgeek Building a Robotic Community.
Jeff's All Things Robot, (plenty of links) Jeff Robots
Machine Brain Robots and Smart Machines.
X Robots Robots for all occasions.
Build a working robot Boys Life
The Robot Hall of Fame recognizes excellence in robotics technology worldwide and honors the fictional and real robots that have inspired and made breakthrough accomplishments in robotics. The Robot Hall of Fame was created by Carnegie Mellon University in April 2003 to call attention to the increasing contributions from robots to human society
Pololu, your source for robot kits, robot parts, and robot electronics.
Vivid Videos Demonstrate SuperBot Progress. SuperBot Robot Can Construct Itself
Cool Robot Of The Week. Real Robots on the Web. Robot Tools. NASA Space Telerobotics Program, now part of Office of Space Science.
Types of Robots. Some Ways to Use Robots. (NASA)
Robotics Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mobility and Robotic Systems. NASA
Portland Area Robotics Society An Oregon non-profit formed to help those interested in learning about and building robots.
Robotics and Automation Laboratory at the University of Western Australia, Perth.
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Open University Robotics Outreach Group Dallas Personal Robotics Group Machine Intelligence Group, India Beagle 2 - A UK robot lander on Mars Robot Space Explorers - An educators and enthusiasts guide 5 Strange Japanese Robots Hacked Gadgets SuperDroid Robots provide a wide range of robot kits. Robotics Engineering program at WPI HRIWeb: The Human-Robot Interaction Site Hardware Guides, BIOS, Drivers, DLL files and Peripherals |
AREXX Engineering
manufacture and distribute a wide range of electronic products for hobby,
professional and educational use.
Science Tech Robot links.
Future-Bots Robotic parts and systems and Vintage and New hard-to-find items including Integrated Circuits, CPU's, Memory, Linear Devices, Transistors, and more.
The ROVer Ranch An interactive, Web-based robotics workshop for assembling the hardware and instructions for a software robot to perform a mission in a virtual environment. Robot Activity Links. Other Robot Links.
Robot.org.uk This site is a guide for robot builders. There are lists of robotics books, magazines, CD-ROMs, kits, component suppliers, information sources and events.
Epanorama Robotics Links Epanorama web site, which is dedicated to offer information on electronics found from the web. Lot's or electronic, computer and other related links.
Zach's Cool Stuff. Where people come to expand their knowledge of electronics, robotics, and technology through hands-on projects (i.e., Building Cool Stuff).
Cool Robots at Dartmouth College Scalable, Solar-Powered, autonomous science platforms from the Antarctic.
Smart Robots Open Robot Network (ORN) members are improving and expanding upon the protocols, languages, applications, and technologies of the SR4 that support robot-to-robot and robot-to-person communication over the Internet.
The Robot Group was founded in the Spring of 1989 by a small group of Austin, TX artists and engineers who shared a common vision: utilizing technology to provide and explore new mediums for art.
Team Stupid Robots is dedicated to providing and supporting economical motor and motion control solutions for a wide variety industrial, research, hobby, and military/police applications. Robot Links
VMRP wall climbing robot able to climb walls
Tech-supplies The online shop for all your PICAXE, electronic, robotic and educational technology projects.
The Robix Rascal Classroom Robot Set
Robots Rule PC Robots Forum/Robot Forums - Community Robots Forums. This forum is dedicated to the discussion of PC controlled robots, androids, robotics, and robot hobbyists.
A Robot Club Forum Index More Forums
Robot Watch. A Japanese site (translated into English).
RoboteQ Embedded System and Motor Control Specialists.
Stepper Motor using the original floppy disk drive for IBM-PCs. (Quite a number of other similar links)
IFI Robotics The Art of Science and Control
Robotic System Laboratory Embedded Systems Recourses
Micro Dones GmbH. Development of robotic aerial vehicles. Production of rotary wing based VTOL MAV's. (VTOL = Vertical Take Off and Landing, MAV = Micro Aerial Vehicle).
The Robotics
Institute Robot
Programming Code. Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University.
Botball Store All proceeds from the Botball Store go to support educational robotics programs.
AVR and Robotics A collection of robot electronics information.
Mike's Electric Stuff High Voltage, Valves and other electrical stuff. Which is better, PIC or AVR ? Let's have a heated debate....
Robot-Crawler 6 legs servo Atmel controller Atmel Website
Larry Barello's AVR and Robotics
Neil's Hardware using Macxeno Items
Interfacing Discussion Group Archives
Make a Marker-Writing Robot out of an Old Inket printer and an iRobot Create
Micromagic Systems® Supply animatronic, robotic and puppet control systems and services to the film and television industry. Most recent projects include "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".
GKDesign specialises in developing prototypes for your robotics and electronics needs.
Silicon Chip Australia's electronics magazine, and is primarily directed to professionals, trades people and enthusiasts in the electronics, electrical, computer and related fields.
Stop the construction of Killer Robots It has been clamed that mass assembling an army of giant KILLER ROBOTS to destroy the world that we live. Sign a Petition to help stop this.
Engineering TV, an innovative online video program by engineers for engineers. Twice a week, each 5-8 minute episode shows cutting-edge technology in action and looks behind the scenes as today's engineers shape tomorrow's breakthroughs. Brought to you by the Penton Media Design and Electronics Engineering groups.
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RoboGames humanoid smack-down |
RoboGames 2008 Watching the humanoid battles.
A Technical Guide To Building Fighting Robots
The Fighting Robot Association
Robot Solutions LLC A source for high quality PMDC motor controls and accessories. We have motor controllers for all types of motors and Battlebots.
RealTimeBattle is a programming game, in which robots controlled by programs are fighting each other. The goal is to destroy the enemies, using the radar to examine the environment and the cannon to shoot.
Cool Robots (My Robot can beat up your Robot)
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| Bug Labs buildable electronics at CES 2009 (I/O attachment, could may be used for control of robotics). Watch all the video :) |
The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.
PC Robots Forum/Robot Forums More Forums
Open Hardware Licenses Open (source) hardware is a licensing agreement for electromechanical projects. That is to say, electronics and robotics and other mechanical projects are open hardware if they are documented and published under an open hardware license.
Control. Global online community of automation professionals.
RoSH, (Restriction of Hazardous Substances), also known as Lead-Free. RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC restricts the use of six hazardous materials found in electrical and electronic products. All applicable products in the EU market after July 1, 2006 must pass RoHS compliance. RoHS impacts the entire electronics industry.
WEEE, (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment). WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC mandates the treatment, recovery and recycling of electric and electronic equipment (90% ends up in landfills). All applicable products in the EU market after August 13, 2006 must pass WEEE compliance and carry the "Wheelie Bin" sticker.
Electronics, Electronic components and Electronics Circuits.
Hardware Guides, BIOS, Drivers, DLL files and Peripherals
RFID, Radio Frequency ID, Radio Frequency IDentification
Compare Bargains on Hardware and Peripherals
Operating Systems and Graphical User Interfaces. Windows Visa/XP, Linux, Apple, BeOS, etc.
Mill Engine. Engineering and Mechanical Portal. Engineering links, Mechanical links, engineers, machines, engines. Civil Engineering, architecture, construction, transportation, etc...
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